Wagon-brake



(No Model.)

J. S. BROWN. WAGON. BRAKE.

No. 413,020. Patented Oct. 15, 1889.

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IIMTED STATES JOSEPH S. BROWN, OF BREMEN, KENTUCKY.

WAGON-BRAKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 413,020, dated October 15, 1889.

Application filed June 7, 1889. Serial No. 313,442. -(ITo model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH S. BROWN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Bremen, in the county of Muhlenburg and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in \Vagon-Brakes, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention pertains to certain new and useful improvements in wagon or buggy brakes, having for its object the production of an automatic brake comprising new and improved means for readily and easily operating the same, substantially as hereinafter fully set forth, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of a wagon with my improved brake applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a side view. Fig. 3 is a detail.

Referring to the drawings, A designates the brake-rod, and a brackets secured to the rear axle or bolster d for pivotally supporting said brake-rod. This rod is provided with outer curved arms a a whereon are secured by nuts a brake-shoes B B, which are normall y in contact with the outer edges of the rear wheels.

0 is a sliding bar resting on hounds b, and to it are connected chains or straps b, which at their rear ends are secured to a curved arm b of brake-rod A, said chains or straps being guided by staples 17 secured to the central coupling-pole 19 The whiffletrees D have link-connections d with the singletree d, and they are also connected by rods or chains (1 to the slidingbar O. The forward movement of the ends of the singletree d is limited by chains d connected thereto and to the front axle. The brake-shoes are normally in contact with the rear Wheels, the weight of the brake'rod serving to so hold the same.

In practice, when the draft-horses pull on the whiffietrees, the brake-shoes are elevated through the agency of the sliding bar and the connecting chains or straps. Thus it will be seen that when there is no draft power, as in descending an incline, the brakes are auto matically applied, and that the same are elevated from the wheels when any pull is exerted on the whiffletrees.

Myinvention thus constructed is extremely simple, cheap, and durable, and, being composed of few parts, is not likely to be easily deranged or get out of order.

I claim as my invention The herein-described improved brake, consisting of the combination of the brake-rod having outer curved arms formed integral therewith and provided with shoes secured thereon, and a central projecting arm also formed integral with said rod, the sliding bar resting on said hounds, and the two chains or straps connected at their forward ends to said bar and at their rear ends to said central arm, the whiffletree, the chains connected thereto and to said sliding bar, and the chains (1 also conneotedto said whiffletree and to the front axle, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH S. BROWN.

WVitnesses:

W. R. EAVES, J AMES L. FISH. 

